I'm sorry, mooser, but your comedic ju ju don't even come close Rocky's little sompin', sompin.'

*Now somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota

There lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon

And one day his woman ran off with another guy

Hit young Rocky in the eye Rocky didn't like that

He said I'm gonna get that boy

So one day he walked into town

Booked himself a room in the local saloon.

Rocky Raccoon checked into his room

Only to find Gideon's bible

Rocky had come equipped with a gun

To shoot off the legs of his rival

His rival it seems had broken his dreams

By stealing the girl of his fancy.

Her name was Magil and she called herself Lil

But everyone knew her as Nancy.

Now she and her man who called himself Dan

Were in the next room at the hoe down

Rocky burst in and grinning a grin

He said Danny boy this is a showdown

But Daniel was hot-he drew first and shot

And Rocky collapsed in the corner.

Now the doctor came in stinking of gin

And proceeded to lie on the table

He said Rocky you met your match

And Rocky said, Doc it's only a scratch

And I'll be better I'll be better doc as soon as I am able.

Now Rocky Raccoon he fell back in his room

Only to find Gideon's bible

A Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt

To help with good Rocky's revival.

*the beatles

bah.

It sounds like plagiarism ... but it probably wasn't.

bah!

Mark Twain said "There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics of the nationality of the man who did it. And they are not really scarce, either. Cain is branded a murderer so heartily and unanimously in America, only because he was neither a Democrat nor a Republican. The Feejee Islander's abuse of Cain ceased very suddenly when the white man mentioned casually that Cain was a Feejee Islander. The next remark of the savage, after an awkward pause, was: "Well, what did Abel come fooling around there for?"

- "Memoranda," The Galaxy, May 1870

Of course, Mark Twain also said the Irish was a nation of chaste women.

ruler of a small country,

bah.

~@Maureen O. Concerning the Second Coming ..."and I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." (Rev. xxi)

one must be able to [at least] invision Russia from the porch. Fortunately (for those not gifted with such 'visions'), modern technology, for the first time in human history, has enabled everyone - everywhere to actually see the entire planet as a whole.

like this: >"Correction.

"among the first in the world to farm". I've just come indoors from cold, crisp winter weather and, as I saw the sun setting, I thought of all those human beings squashed together in that strip of land, Gaza, and the grotesque show of power that Israel is enacting. Night has come earlier to Gaza than it has to New York or San Francisco. The European media is being kept out of Gaza and we don't have to wonder why." --maureen O.

You got to admit, mooser, maureen can hit-a-lick every once in while.

bah.

~*p.s. mooser. also, you are wrong about jewish princesses.

you ambience chaser, leave Mrs. O alone. I done scared her half to death.

bah.

>"Meanwhile, most of the rest of the world -- Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East, the U.N. leadership -- opposes and condemns the attack, all to no avail."

The 'tyranny of the minor states' is one of the most often heard objections at the United Nations. Clearly, 51% of the nations can represent much less than 51% of the world's people.

In todays world, the 21st century, there is no greater threat to the collective security and well-being of humanity than war and the threat of war. Therefore, a fair and just process for resolving international disputes is imperative.

There seems nothing fair, or even reasonable to me, about [a] permanant absolute veto-empowered UN Security Council member(s) who can essentially block or undermine the collective will of the entire General Assembly/Executive of the UN unilaterally. In fact, it seems counter the very principles upon which the United Nations was founded. A 1958 document by Clark and Sohn entitled World Peace through World Law, with variation on the present UN charter, explores the idea of replacing the UN Security Council with an 'Executive Council that would have no veto power and would be subordinate to the General Assembly.'

***

It occurs to me further, given the UN's (i.e. the worlds) role in the establishment of Israel (evidently at the expense of Palestinians), we -all- share some responsibility in a just solution, Glenn. After all, 'the world is just one big country, and mankind its citizens.'

bah.

~in the meantime, i offer some 'anger management' techniqes i have found helpful in the past ... @ sig.